Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

Observation is fundamental to science. In fact, one could even argue that science is observation, nourished and channeled for the purpose of better understanding what our world is and how it works.

Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, T. 75, Fasc. 4, Modelos e Metáforas: Arte e Ciência / Models and Metaphors: Art and Science (2019), pp. 2229-2246 (18 pages) This is an attempt to answer the following ...

Scientists often struggle to explain their research to nonscientists, whether it’s at a cocktail party, on an airplane, or when speaking to a journalist. For Julie Rorrer, the struggle began with a ...

The five phases of mitosis and cell division tightly coordinate the movements of hundreds of proteins. How did early biologists unravel this complex dance of chromosomes? Cells duplicate and condense ...

After nearly 350 years, a depiction of a bee’s brain is getting some buzz. A manuscript created in the mid-1670s contains the oldest known depiction of an insect’s brain, historian of science Andrea ...

In her transdisciplinary Media Art Xploration series, science provides the data that art transforms into sensory and ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. When testing a new pen, Leonardo da Vinci was in the habit of scrawling the phrase dimmi — tell me.